Fungalpedia – Note 588, Woldmaria

 

Woldmaria W.B. Cooke.

Citation when using this data: Zhang et al. 2025 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia. Basidiomycota.

Classification: Niaceae, Agaricales, Agaricomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi 

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank , Fig. 1

Woldmaria, a cyphelloid genus, was introduced by Cooke (1961) and was typified by Woldmaria filicina (Knudsen and Hansen 1996). Bodensteiner et al. (2004) established a phylogenetic relationship of cyphelloid genera, including Woldmaria and related six genera, as well as a corticioid genus Dendrothele, demonstrating that Woldmaria is closely related to Nia clade (= Cyphellopsidaceae, Agaricales, Basidiomycota). Silva-Filho et al. (2023) introduced a new genus, Eoscyphella, which is phylogenetically sister to Woldmaria in Cyphellopsidaceae (Vlasenko and Vlasenko 2013), a family containing largest number of cyphelloid genera. The monotypic genus Woldmaria is characterized by basidiocarps with filamentous basis, golden-brown subicles with conspicuous long hairs on the surface, smooth hymenium and fusiform, hyaline basidiospores (Cooke 1961; Agerer 1973; Bodensteiner et al. 2004; Piatek and Bujakiewicz 2004; Vlasenko and Vlasenko 2013). Woldmaria filicina is a common species worldwide and has been found in many countries, including Europe (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom) and North American (Canada, USA) This species is notably characterized by its unique ecology of host preference, as it is confined to a fern species, Matteuccia struthiopteris (Onocleaceae), although there is a record of this species being found on Pteretis sp. (Onocleaceae) (Cooke 1961; Piatek and Bujakiewicz 2004; Vlasenko and Vlasenko 2013).

Type species: Woldmaria filicina (Peck) Knudsen.

≡ Solenia filicina Peck.

= Woldmaria crocea (P. Karst.) W.B. Cooke.

= Solenia crocea P. Karst.

= Cyphella struthiopteridis Pilát.

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Woldmaria.

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Figure 1 – Woldmaria filicina. a Group of basidiocarps the host. b Hyphae. c Basidia. d Basidiospores. Redrawn from Piatek and Bujakiewicz (2004).

 

References

Knudsen H, Hansen L 1996 – Nomenclatural notes to Nordic Macromycetes vol. 1 & 3. Nordic Journal of Botany 16:211–221.

Cooke BW 1961 – The cyphellaceous fungi. A study in the Porotheleaceae. Beihefte zur Sydowia. 4:1–144.

Bodensteiner P, Binder M, Moncalvo J-M, Agerer R, Hibbett DS 2004 – Phylogenetic relationships of cyphelloid homobasidiomycetes. Molecular Phylogenetics and evolution 33:501–515.

Silva-Filho AG, Mombert A, Nascimento CC, Nóbrega BB, Soares DM, Martins AG, Domingos AH, Santos I, Della-Torre OH, Perry BA 2023 – Eoscyphella luciurceolata gen. and sp. nov. (Agaricomycetes) Shed Light on Cyphellopsidaceae with a New Lineage of Bioluminescent Fungi. Journal of Fungi 9:1004.

Vlasenko VA, Vlasenko AV 2013 – New record of Woldmaria filicina (Cyphellaceae), Basidiomycota in Russia. Mycosphere 4:848–854.

Agerer R 1973 – Rectipilus, eine neue Gattung cyphelloider Pilze. Persoonia-Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi 7 (3):389–436.

Piątek M, Bujakiewicz A 2004 – Lachnella villosa and Woldmaria filicina, two remarkable cyphellaceous fungi from Poland. Polish Botanical Journal 49:145–150.

 

Entry by

Jing-Yi Zhang, School of Food and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Guizhou Institute of Technology, Guiyang, 550025, People’s Republic of China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand, Guizhou Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, 550009, People’s Republic of China.

 

Published online 11 June 2025

 

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